as in negative
opposed to one's interests
the company chose to accept the unfavorable settlement rather than spend more money on legal fees
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Recent Examples of unfavorable
On some of the country’s biggest lakes, often hundreds of miles wide with no current, an unfavorable wind made a waterway impassible.
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Outside, 7 Feb. 2026
That is, clinicians have a duty to restrict the range of clinical options, because medical interventions with unfavorable risk/benefit profiles can set back patients’ health interests rather than protecting or promoting them.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 7 Feb. 2026
If the outdoor conditions are unfavorable, chances are someone around will have a key to one of the two indoor rinks.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
The administration has signaled its intent to continue appealing unfavorable trial court decisions, with legal experts noting that key provisions of administration executive orders had faced receptive audiences in higher courts.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
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Outside, 7 Feb. 2026
That is, clinicians have a duty to restrict the range of clinical options, because medical interventions with unfavorable risk/benefit profiles can set back patients’ health interests rather than protecting or promoting them.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 7 Feb. 2026
If the outdoor conditions are unfavorable, chances are someone around will have a key to one of the two indoor rinks.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
The administration has signaled its intent to continue appealing unfavorable trial court decisions, with legal experts noting that key provisions of administration executive orders had faced receptive audiences in higher courts.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for unfavorable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfavorable
Adjective
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Nestle, which makes Guigoz in France and SMA in the UK, said Thursday that stock shortages and returns of some formula products would have a marginally negative impact on its sales volumes this year.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
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Kennedy gets praise in some quarters for his campaign against food preservatives, but on balance his prescriptions have been far more negative than positive for the public interest.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Kiosks should be designed to detect drug combinations or conditions with higher risks for adverse events and these high-risk scenarios should be automatically flagged for real-time clinician review or to be reviewed within 24 hours of dispensing.—
Mark A. Munger,
STAT,
13 Feb. 2026
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The sharp rise in chocolate prices owes to a cocoa shortage caused primarily by adverse weather and crop disease in West Africa, which accounts for about 70% of the world’s cocoa, some analysts told ABC News.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Deery believes that decline can be attributed in part to prospective students and parents feeling like campuses are hostile to those who don't hold a liberal-leaning worldview.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
18 Feb. 2026
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For some unexplained reason, if such an event continues for a prolonged period, citizens can often become inexplicably hostile.—
Wayne Chan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Unfavorable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfavorable. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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